ALSO: poems in Irish and English by Gréagóir Ó Dúill and Gabriel Rosenstock; translations by Donncha Crowley of poems in Irish by Seán O Ríordán. A traditional Hungarian folksong translated by George Szirtes and a poem by Josef Czechowicz translated from the Polish by George Hyde and Malgorzata Sady. And two poems by René Guy Cadou translated from the French by John Montague.

COVER: The Cottage at Skeagh, from which THE SHOp has been produced for many years drawing by Teo Wakeman

To mark the publication of this 40th issue, the second section contains new poems by writers whose work also appeared in the first issue in 1999. They are Eva Bourke (translating Rilke), Patrick Cotter, John F. Deane, Fred Johnston, Medbh McGuckian, Michael Mackmin, Michael Massey, Gerry Murphy, Les Murray, Robert Nye, George Szirtes and David Wheatley.